Investigators of the Security Service of Ukraine sent indictments in the criminal proceedings to the court against six "officers" of the "LPR military and political bloc" in August 2016. SBU officers have documented anti-Ukrainian activity of the three self-appointed "ministers" and three representatives of the "power block". They are charged with the promotion of a terrorist organization; committing actions aimed at forcible change or overthrow of the constitutional order or the seizure of state power; intentional acts committed aimed at changing the borders of the territory or the state borders of Ukraine, for violation of the order established by the Constitution of Ukraine. Plotnytsky is among them.